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I recently had an annoying encounter with the error message: Too many authentication failures for root. I found out this can be caused because you've hoarded too many SSH keys :)

Linux Security Ssh

I love my NAS but because I tried to save a little money it does not run SABnzbd very well.

Crontab Mount Nas Network Sabnzbd Solo Synology

Quick tip. If you lose your Vagrant mounts after kernel upgrades in your virtualbox, you'll need to reinstall your VirtualBox Guest Additions. Same is true when you upgrade Vagrant, etc.

Ubuntu Vagrant Virtualbox Virtualization

If you use EC2 you may have heard of Tim Kay's aws commandline tool. It provides access to most of Amazon's API and is less cumbersome than Amazon's own CLI utilities in day to day use.

Bash Cronlock Crontab Solo Timkay

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